Hilarious. Corporate academic elite discuss how to preserve what the most fundamental working of their own social-economic system destroys, without realizing the contradiction voids all their considerations. Simply stated, the "machete" of global development must be removed from the hand of man, not guided to less destructive cuts.

The salient fact is that global development has upended the whole planet's progression and character of weather and therefore, fertility. Choosing which dies last has little effect. I guess they mean well, despite their irrelevance.

To be either relevant and effective, these scientists must realise that their target for forest preservation must be the Corporate Growth Machine of Death. That is the driver of forest exploitation around the world, along with the governments they bribe for access to these resources.

Deciding where to spend their corporate grant money (bribes?) as their corporations strip the planet seems quite delusive.

We have grown far beyond our our country’s first-world carrying capacity. Our state and country are dropping further and further into social, ecological, and economic squalor as our irresponsible growth continues in a declining ecology.

Fire is the favorite handmaiden of change that this type of irresponsible growth ushers in, once the floods clear. Our bad, our greedy behavior has ushered in an era of rolling climate extremes, rolling from drought to flood to heat wave, and back through the cycle again, and faster each time through.

Fire and Smoke Awarness are fully required for Summer backpacking in our Brave New World.

Our best “management practice” will be the immediate stoppage of population growth, with the goal of shrinking back under a number we can sustain our environment under a middle-class democracy.

Cleaning up "our" mess requires the return of our jobs to clean manufacturing here, rather than in the filth of China. And a return to American Wage Levels, rather than those of the third-world we are now experiencing.

Our best “management practice” for forests is the same one required for the bees, and for every other part of the Web of Life on this Planet: Humans Must Control Themselves, and their Base Desires, controlling our desires to cheat each other and Mother Nature.

What do you think the odds are of that happening? Tell it to the bees and the trees...

Let me set the stage: 102 million trees killed by global warming in California. That's on top of the long-term damage that the blights, beetles, and bugs steady warming have brought into the Sierra Nevada Forests over the last fifty years of constant changes in Western US seasonal lengths and transitions.
Summer has grown, Winter has shrunk under this warming, all leading up to the cumulative Massive Tree Kill-Off we just experienced over the last seven years of, "radical," drought.

This was not so radical a change if we look at this drought in the context of the steady trend of changing and drying weather patterns over the last fifty years.

Make no mistake about it. This last seven years of drought on top of this long drying process has whipped nature into a bloody mess. Humans are never far behind, when that happens.

What comes next after drought-driven tree mortality and huge fires, followed by epic rain and snow?

A huge freeking mess, that's what. Trees crashing down on everything everywhere. The soils beneth destabilized. The combination driving unstable trails, terrain, and mountainsides during thaw and rains-snow periods. Blocked streams when they wash down-mountain, and a vast fire hazard when this mess dries out.

Then we have the general human hazards. Roads, bridges, trails, and much solid public infrastructure will be wiped out. Then we have specific hazards, like those to homes and private property, of which the article above is most concerned.

And all of man and Nature will suffer if we experience a precipitious thaw, a rapid melt-down and rise of rivers. That happens if tropical rains or a heat wave hit our hot, wet, and still quite massive snowpack.

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